How exactly is this the future we signed up for? Instead of real health insurance we get Black Mirror-esque direct corporate funded healthcare?

I've been down so many rabbit holes recently, educating myself about American politics, that I'm changing my name to Alice.

Now that I know what's up with politics in the US, and I've seen through all the BS that cluttered my news feeds and everywhere else, I have some notes that I'd like to share for those who might be on the same journey as me and are searching for trustworthy sources of information:

Note 1: The solution to the current political (and probably also climate) problems is simple in principle. First we take down the rising fascist movement, then we turn capitalism into a mixed economy like some of the northern European countries (who are living their best lives right now). Simple right? How tho?

Note 2: Empower the FTC, Lina Khan, and Bernie Sanders by giving them as much support as I can afford to. Not just money, money doesn't solve everything as we all should know by now. Physical support! Attend progressive rallies and share INFORMATION instead of MISinformation (even if it's just to point it out) or sign up to work for them directly (who else would pay you a fair wage right now?)

Note 3: The more information we all share, the more of it there is, right? So then the more we share misinformation, the more of THAT there is also. Its just maths!

The solutions are all out there if I had have known where to look and so I share them with you [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhEoeA5Yj0&ab_channel=RobertReich), and [here](https://www.youtube.com/@SMN), and and if you weren't already convinced, [here](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/)

And finally, a reliable news source that isn't youtube or reddit: https://ground.news/

If you're wondering how to attend a rally for real there are discord channels, X channels, even some stuff on Facebook if you use the right search terms (Warning: This is hard mode extrovert stuff with a side of police brutality which will escalate unless we turn this boat around)

You know where this is going, so let's stare into the abyss and see what looks back shall we?

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I was arguing with somebody in YT comments and just did a number crunch to prove a point.

“PB&J for 1 dollar? Yeah… sure… I don’t think you’ve seen grocery prices. Just 2 slices of bread averages to the cost of $0.98, and that’s before attempting to calculate the cost a jelly and peanut butter… also, do you actually expect them to survive from PB&Js. Let’s just be reasonable and imagine that we are low-balling this, and accepting PB&J, calculating it as .98 cents a meal, and they have that meal every day, 3 times a day, for a month. We are talking $88 a month on groceries for a month with an lowball estimated cost, with a super low calorie count meal, for an entire month.

The average person is forced to work a single part time job (because part time jobs still demand open availability and don’t have consistent hours typically) for about 30 hours a week, with an average pay of approximately $12 an hour. That’s about $2025 monthly before taxes, and an average of $1758 (I’ll round to $1760) a month post taxes.

Let’s just automatically lowball a $150 a month car insurance, and then double that to have gas in that insured car. $1760 - $300 = $1460. Lowballing rent with North Dakota’s average of $880 a month here… $1460 - $880 = $580 Lowest average utility bills (which are still required in rentals) is $520 a month.

We are down to $60, and I still haven’t subtracted other costs that are basically necessities that aren’t covered under these like having some form of cellular coverage, and more importantly, the groceries I mentioned earlier, with the extreme lowball of $88 dollars…

This leaves us will in the red by $26 without trying to consider savings, or some other insurance, like renters insurance, or what happens if you have literally any complicating factors like medical conditions, student loan payments, (any other form of debt whatsoever, which is bound to happen considering you literally are in the red on a month by month basis) and emergency expenses…”

And of course, the prices I used for my averages were consistently the lowest average, according to government figures/data, which I can assume is heavily biased towards making things look peachy. (except for the bread’s cost, which I based on a random loaf’s price I had gotten recently)

No seriously. We're walking on thin ice here.

"Competition among capitalists increases the accumulation of capital. Accumulation, where private property prevails, is the concentration of capital in the hands of a few, it is in general an inevitable consequence if capital is left to follow its natural course, and it is precisely through competition that the way is cleared for this natural disposition of capital." - Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844